New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school ...

And without a college preparatory track of advanced math classes to take after algebra, the benefits of taking Algebra 1 in eighth grade are unlikely to accrue. It’s also not economically practical ...

It appears that NYC’s Department of Education never went to bid for the “Illustrative Math” curriculum.

Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra.. Most folks who have been through high school mathematics courses will have taken a class called algebra—maybe even a sequence of ...

Black and Hispanic high school students in Austin also underperformed their peers statewide, most notably in Algebra 1. On the math test, 26% of Hispanic and 17% of Black students met grade level ...